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UPS Production Harassment and How to Fight It

June 11, 2010: Across the country, UPS is disciplining drivers for failing to maintain their SPOHR or maintain their “demonstrated work performance.” TDU’s “Protecting Yourself from UPS Production Harassment” workshop shows drivers how to protect yourself everyday. Find out: How to protect yourself everyday by following UPS’s methods. What to do on an OJS and when you get called into the office. How to dismantle the company’s case and win your grievance if management comes...

June UPS Grievance Docket Now Available

May 21, 2010: The second UPS national panel of the year will meet June 7–10 in Providence, Rhode Island. Click here to read the docket of cases that will be heard. Click here to read the docket for the Joint National Air Committee. The UPS National Grievance Committee settles disputes and other grievances that have been deadlocked at both the local and regional levels.

The Business Journal: UPS to furlough 54 pilots next week

May 20, 2010: UPS Airlines, a division of United Parcel Service Inc., will furlough 54 pilots Sunday, the first of 300 pilots slated to be grounded in an attempt by the shipper to cut costs and streamline its operations. Read more at The Business Journal.

Roll Call: FedEx, UPS Battle Over Labor Organizing Rules

May 18, 2010: As they continue to wage a high-dollar and nasty lobbying campaign, archrivals FedEx and UPS are awaiting final delivery of legislation that will determine whether they must abide by the same union organizing rules. The two giant transportation companies have been at loggerheads for years over federal rules that make it harder for FedEx drivers to organize and strike. Click here to read more at Roll Call.

Feeder Driver Beats UPS on Safety

April 30, 2010: John Youngermann, a TDU member and UPS feeder driver out of the Earth City, Missouri, hub won an important OSHA ruling that supported a driver’s right to refuse to drive unsafe equipment. On April 22, 2010, OSHA awarded Youngermann compensatory and punitive damages as well as back pay with overtime and interest. Youngermann phoned the company to try to get the equipment repaired without success, and finally refused to pull a trailer...
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